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So I've been trying a bunch of the different K-cup flavors and this is by far the best one I've had. It is in the 13 dollar range for a box but I feel like it is worth it:

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Got a Keurig Rivo espresso machine. It uses Lavazza espresso pods, in decaf and 3 intensity levels. Has a milk pitcher that can give you cappuccino froth, latte froth or cold froth for iced lattes.

It. Is. AMAZING. I can't believe the quality. The espresso is perfect, with a nice crema layer on top, and the frother works excellently. Within 5 minutes I can make cappuccinos or lattes for myself and my wife. It's fantastic. Highly recommended!
 
Can anyone with the Hario Skerton or Hario Mini comment on if you need to do these "mods" that I keep reading about? Are they still necessary as a lot of the reviews I've read about needing these grinders modded were from 2-4 years ago?

I make coffee in a French Press, and eventually might do an AeroPress, but right now I don't have any issue with the FP so I'd be using the grinder for coarse, french press grinds I believe.

Can I buy one of these and be okay out of the box or do I need to get something else? Right now I use 1/4c of french press pre-grinded coffee with between 1.5-2.0c of water if that makes a difference with what size I need.

Thanks!
 
How do you guys make your own iced coffee? I usually either cold brew or let it get to room temperature and put the coffee in the fridge.
 
Can anyone recommend a good brew for the winter mornings?

I've been looking for new beans but the Bustelo and Dunkin aren't doing it.

I'm looking for a light roast, maybe French vanilla.
 
I'm not big into coffee (even though I drink it every day), but I've been drinking Chocolate Glazed Donut Kuerig cups, and holy sweet lord they are delicious. Will drink until sick of them.
 
Makabe said:
How do you guys make your own iced coffee? I usually either cold brew or let it get to room temperature and put the coffee in the fridge.
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room temp then fridge. For awhile i was freezing ice cubes of coffee and using them to cool down my room temp coffee for single servings, but I just make a big jug now.
 
X-Frame said:
Has anyone ever gotten coffee from Intelligentsia Coffee?

I'm always on the lookout for new places to order coffee from for my French Press. They seem quite expensive though.
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Yes, and they're top notch stuff. They're one of the larger third wave coffee houses around, with a few locations across the country. You're not really going to go wrong there.

I shouldn't be surprised by the amount of people using Keurig machines given their popularity, but I always am. Not only are they utterly atrocious for the environment, but you folks are dramatically, dramatically overpaying for your coffee, ounce for ounce, pound for pound.

I don't want to tell anyone that there's a right way to make coffee or anything -- enjoy what you will -- but please do consider the alternatives and the impact machines like Keurig have. You can make good coffee fairly quickly and effortlessly, with minimal environment impact and at substantially lower costs.

If you guys want to get more into coffee, Mark Prince's www.coffeegeek.com or Google+ community are great jumping off spots for it.
 
Florida-GAF or anyone visiting central Florida: Barnie's Coffee Kitchen serves the best coffee I've ever had. Everyone we've ever taken there has absolutely fallen in love with the place.
 
Macam said:
Yes, and they're top notch stuff. They're one of the larger third wave coffee houses around, with a few locations across the country. You're not really going to go wrong there.

I shouldn't be surprised by the amount of people using Keurig machines given their popularity, but I always am. Not only are they utterly atrocious for the environment, but you folks are dramatically, dramatically overpaying for your coffee, ounce for ounce, pound for pound.

I don't want to tell anyone that there's a right way to make coffee or anything -- enjoy what you will -- but please do consider the alternatives and the impact machines like Keurig have. You can make good coffee fairly quickly and effortlessly, with minimal environment impact and at substantially lower costs.

If you guys want to get more into coffee, Mark Prince's www.coffeegeek.com or Google+ community are great jumping off spots for it.
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Awesome, thank you!

Do you have any recommendations? I like dark roasts a lot, and looking at their site it seems they only have 1 dark roast blend, the "El Diablo". But what about any of those Single Origin ones?

I've been ordering from The Roasterie in Kansas City and they have half a dozen dark roast blends that I like.
 
Oh man, a micro-roaster just opened up where I live. I can't easily get to them, so I'm still buying online and getting it delivered, but I love the idea of buying something particularly local. They provide info sheets with a history behind the farm that grew the coffee and their recommendations for measurements for nearly every brew method for that specific one, and it's really fucking good. http://northstarroast.com/ if anyone here's in the UK, they're well worth trying.
 
Halcyon said:
So I've been trying a bunch of the different K-cup flavors and this is by far the best one I've had. It is in the 13 dollar range for a box but I feel like it is worth it:

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Daaaamn, that's expensive for only 16 cups of coffee?? I guess it's cheaper than actually going to Starbucks but wow! If you're going to pay that much regularly, you can invest in a simple manual burr grinder, a pourover setup, and get pretty damn good beans since you'll already be used to paying a lot for beans.



Now that it's getting super warm here (even though it's winter), I've been backing off of the heavier roast stuff and wanting something more floral. I got some Ethiopian beans to try out this weekend. Can't wait!

I'm with Ingrate with the coldbrew process. Room temp for a few hours, then stick it in the fridge. I feel wasteful for using so many beans, but it's a good way to use up stale beans b/c it still tastes good. Most of the time, I just grind into a jar, top off with water, and let that brew. Then when I want to drink it, I run it thru the pourover filter. But now I'm wondering...can I put the grinds into a paper teabag thing first and THEN put it in water? Then all I need to do is fish out the teabag and then drink straight from the jar. Hmmmm...would the more compact way the grind sits affect the extraction?
 
DoktorEvil said:
That's a nice piece for 30 bucks, but the $60 kettle...
There's a percentage of the population that struggles with over pour?

I might give that a try, maybe it'll freshen up my bland coffee at home.
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You can get gooseneck kettles for less; anywhere from $30 for a minimal kettle to $90+ for something like a Bonavita that includes a heater and stores a handful of preset temperatures. That's a drop in the bucket considering how many times you'll use it, and especially compared to, say, a Keurig machine.

A pour over method, like the Hario V60, is about as simple as it comes. A French Press is arguably a wee bit simpler, but that's such a marginally small difference, if any at all, that it's insignificant. This isn't a siphon or anything. Making coffee is a simple process.


X-Frame said:
Awesome, thank you!

Do you have any recommendations? I like dark roasts a lot, and looking at their site it seems they only have 1 dark roast blend, the "El Diablo". But what about any of those Single Origin ones?

I've been ordering from The Roasterie in Kansas City and they have half a dozen dark roast blends that I like.
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Not really. I drink middle of the road roasts (pretty common for most premium beans), and I'm not a big on dark roasts save for some espresso.

There's technically nothing wrong with blends, any more than there may be anything wrong with blends of wine, but I like single origin beans so I can taste the regional varietal characteristics a bit more. I'm a big fan of East African coffees in particular, which, when brewed right, can have a fuller, more chocolate and caramel with touches of fruits and spice.
 
Macam said:
A pour over method, like the Hario V60, is about as simple as it comes. A French Press is arguably a wee bit simpler, but that's such a marginally small difference, if any at all, that it's insignificant. This isn't a siphon or anything. Making coffee is a simple process.
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I'd also like to include that a French Press produces coffee with a little bit more grinds (grounds??) in it, which I don't usually mind, but sometimes people don't like the coffee debris at the bottom of their cup. I think if you're going from a K-cup or something, that may be a little surprising.
 
nakedsushi said:
I'd also like to include that a French Press produces coffee with a little bit more grinds (grounds??) in it, which I don't usually mind, but sometimes people don't like the coffee debris at the bottom of their cup. I think if you're going from a K-cup or something, that may be a little surprising.
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Well, it also produces a more full bodied texture and flavor, so that will also be surprising to anyone accustomed to paper or cloth filtered coffee. It's a fantastic way to make coffee, but you have to actually love coffee and its flavors, and if you have a Keurig type of machine, you're probably not quite there yet.
 
I've been on a cold turkey break for weeks now, so sad. Had some issues with my heart rhythm at some nights and I think it was the excess caffeine. Been clear of those symptoms now. I'm planning on moving to drinking one cup a day. I will never sacrifice a good capucchino in a cafe!
 
Fortunately I haven't had issues with caffeine so far but a couple of colleagues of mine have completely stopped drinking coffee recently. On average I drink 7 or 8 cups of coffee every day which doesn't seem to affect me as much as even one cup affects others, can't say I feel different than normal but others keep telling me how much better they feel since they've stopped.
 
Coffee GAF...need your help. I need a really good automatic brewer. My old Cuisinart drip is broken and I want something that makes a REALLY good pot. I hear Bonavita is the way to go. Any recommendations?
 
Superblatt said:
Coffee GAF...need your help. I need a really good automatic brewer. My old Cuisinart drip is broken and I want something that makes a REALLY good pot. I hear Bonavita is the way to go. Any recommendations?
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Well, automatic coffee machines generally don't make "REALLY good coffee", so that's going to be a bit tough. It depends what you're looking for in a coffee machine, let alone coffee.

Having some level of a fine grained temperature control is probably the bare minimum you would need in an automatic machine.
 
I quit coffee yesterday, 2 weeks ago. Today is the first day I don't feel like absolute shit. Soooo tired every day, lethargy, couldn't be bothered doing anything, headaches etc.

My advice, for what it's worth is do not quit this stuff if you have anything important to complete in the following week or so. Nightmare!

But since I've been off it, I can definitely feel
a change in myself, a bit more mellow, not as anxious / nervous or easy to stress out.
It still smells delicious though!
 
I once quit coffee for a month and nothing changed except I wasn't drinking delicious coffee.
 
Hi coffee gaf! Got my setup the other week

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Also just ordered this mug
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Sadly I don't have or know of any local coffee places to get beans. I bought some peet's the other week but I'm almost out. How's the quality from Amazon or Trader's Joe's? Any brands on Amazon that are good but not too pricey. I've heard kicking horse is good? How about 8 o'clock?
 
So I want to get a good aeropress and some beans. Are the top rated ones on Amazon fine? Also with regards to beans, I like all types so please suggest away. I've had the Starbucks ones as they have them here at work so I would like to try something less... "popular" if that makes any sense.
 
FallingEdge said:
So I want to get a good aeropress and some beans. Are the top rated ones on Amazon fine? Also with regards to beans, I like all types so please suggest away. I've had the Starbucks ones as they have them here at work so I would like to try something less... "popular" if that makes any sense.
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No experience with Aeropress but I've heard they're fine.

Almost more important than your beans is how you grind them, you'll need a good burr grinder like one of the ones mentioned in this thread. I have the Bodum one that someone posted just above you. Had it for 1 1/2 years and still going fine. Getting the right thing will give you a good result and last a long time.

Really I go with what's on sale or cheap. If you have a Costco membership, I recently got some from Rwanda that is really good. 2 pounds for $8.99. I generally like darker roasts.

For maximum enjoyment and freshness you should get your beans locally by someone that has roasted them recently. That's definitely the ideal way to go if money is no object, but those kinds of places typically charge $15-20 for a pound or less. I'm happy with good quality beans that weren't necessarily roasted last week.
 
Radec said:
Anyone here doing coffee the simplest way like me ?

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Yep. This is how most families do coffee here in Brazil, I grew up preparing coffee that way (actually I still do when I'm in my parent's house).

The coffee is a little bit more waterish, but tastes fantastic if you know how to do well.
 
andycapps said:
No experience with Aeropress but I've heard they're fine.

Almost more important than your beans is how you grind them, you'll need a good burr grinder like one of the ones mentioned in this thread. I have the Bodum one that someone posted just above you. Had it for 1 1/2 years and still going fine. Getting the right thing will give you a good result and last a long time.

Really I go with what's on sale or cheap. If you have a Costco membership, I recently got some from Rwanda that is really good. 2 pounds for $8.99. I generally like darker roasts.

For maximum enjoyment and freshness you should get your beans locally by someone that has roasted them recently. That's definitely the ideal way to go if money is no object, but those kinds of places typically charge $15-20 for a pound or less. I'm happy with good quality beans that weren't necessarily roasted last week.
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Ahhhh. I see. Get a solid grinder for my beans. Then use the grinded beans for the Aeropress. Sweet. Thanks for the heads up on that and suggestions.
 
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